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All well and good, however majority control of this infrastructure should remain in public hands. Australian communications infrastructure should be a protected resource as it is just as venerable to compromise as our borders. You wouldn't see Howard outsourcing his personal security to a third party who has no interest other than monetary to look after his safety, would you?
Does this Minister ever do more than criticise ?
When will we get a Communications Minister who understands the job.
We don't need this from a highly paid Senator, especially one who doesn't seem to understand the need and urgency of getting off her backside. She must force Telstra to stop stalling and separate their operations both physically and financally.
The infrastructure is a National asset like our roads, electricity, gas and other vital services. Senator Coonan has had legislation available to execute this vital requirement since last year, but dithers round like an old hen in the farmyard.
A change of government is overdue, so that vital services and infrastructure decisions are made without further delay and damage to the countries economy..
It is to be hoped the G9 proposal doesn't gather dust like the Legislation available to Senator Coonan.
It's time for action...long overdue.
If the government regulated that all new infrastructure is to be made available to all service providers at an equal and realistic price, that Telstra is forced to seperate wholeslae with retail and that the G9's $3.6b, Telstra's $4.1b and the government's $4.7b are combined we are well under way to building a national Fibre-to-the-Home network that will deliver 100Mbps per house. Lets get serious ablout broadband as 2 feeds of HD FTA IPTV using MPEG2 alone will require at least 30Mbps per home.
The liberal party have missed the whole point, of course the private sector are looking at creating a network but only between the major cities. The great thing about the Labor policy is that it will reach 98% of Australia and not just the big cities. I live in Tasmaina and I would imagine the 5 cities in question do not include Hobart. Even if they did, I live in the North West so that is not going to help. I am at the forgotten end of Telstra's broadband rollout so I doubt this private network will get to me. Since Telstra have been privatised they are certainly not interested.
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This doesn't show that Mr Rudd was wrong, it just shows he was on the right track in the first place. Typical reaction from the Coonan camp.
Broadband infrastructure is as important as roads.
Perhaps now that some money will be freed up by this, Mr Rudd could spend the money making sure ALL Australians get broadband.